[trick420]

Matt, I followed the instructions I thought to the letter a few weeks ago, installing the standalone firmware followed by Openelec and then Ubuntu. For some reason XBMC will not output HDMI audio using any driver.

I thought maybe I would revert back to stock and try to load XBMC from there, but I can't.

When I boot now, my system appears to hang at a black screen for quite a while, but then proceeds to load up Ubuntu.

I can't for the life of me get it to stop booting and recognize a USB stick in the drive. Any advice on what I could do from within Ubuntu?

Thanks much for your great work and help.

If you can't get it to offer the boot selection menu, then you likely have a bum USB drive. I had one that wouldn't be recognized and had a similar problem. I would suggest first going and getting a new drive and trying that.

Also, it would be worth your time to buy an inexpensive Displayport to HDMI cable - early on I had an issue where the BIOS menu would output to the Displayport but the GUI would output to the HDMI port. Matt has long since fixed this, but if you have some strange case going on here it may help you to recover.

Jeff